Rendall Seely, a teacher in the Iron County School District, works Friday on some art work inspired by Peruvian artist Jeronimo Lozano, a guest artist in the ArtsFUSION workshop.

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Teachers from areas throughout Southern Utah attended a workshop Friday offered by the artsFUSION program to learn how to make the subjects they teach come alive for their students.

The artsFUSION program runs out of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson College of Education and Human Development at Southern Utah University. Jeronimo Lozano, a Peruvian artist who came to the United States seeking political asylum and has since become a U.S. citizen, showed the teachers how to create his art form of retablos, which are scenes contained in boxes depicting clay people involved in everyday ...